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October 7, 2009
Remainders: Duncan, turnarounds, and Chicago violence
- Arne Duncan says his turnaround strategy had nothing to do with the death of a student in Chicago.
- Vagueness about when the new RttT regs will come out is giving the Ed. Dept. headaches.
- Andy Smarick calls the exclusion of private schools from i3 “very troubling”
- Teachable Moment argues that more school choice, like more calorie counts, won’t prevent bad decisions.
- P.S. 24 in Riverdale is losing four of its school aides to budget cuts and is not happy about it.
- The new Frank McCourt school’s admissions process is still TBD, and highly anticipated.
- …And there will be CEC hearings about it in the “coming months” WNYC reports.
- A teacher lists the many difficulties of getting older teacher to use newer technology.
- What if everything we think we know about arts education turns out not to be true?
- “Whatever It Takes,” the documentary about a Bronx high school, will run on PBS in April.
- And four NBA players didn’t attend summer school to teach kids a good lesson, they’ll need the degree.
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October 7th, 2009 8:59 pm
Re twitter update re Klein and RAND study on social promotion….
I take it this was at the PEP meeting tonite, at which a presentation on social promotion in 4th and 6th was on the agenda.Curious as to why put this topic on the agenda BEFORE the study came out.
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